Janine Brown is a Warlpiri artist from Willowra, a remote community some 300km north of Mparntwe (Alice Springs). Janine is the daughter of celebrated artist, Sabrina Spencer.

Janine depicts several significant Dreaming stories from the Warlpiri language group; Bush Onion, Bush Medicine and Bush Damper Seed. The bush onion is a popular bush tucker that grows around the edges of waterholes and creeks; bush damper seeds grow on the tips of wild grasses, are collected by women and ground into a flour to make damper, a bread-like tucker. The roundels represent the waterholes around which the onion, damper seeds, and medicinal botanicals grow. As well as their nutritional or medicinal purposes, these native plants and the associated practices of harvesting and preparing them have deep cultural and spiritual significance.

Like her mother, Janine uses simple and repetitious mark-making, such as dots and lines, to show types of vegetation growing around waterholes. Her works possess a measured symmetry and her monochromatic or reduced colour palette lends itself to a contemporary aesthetic.